Species dynamics during early secondary forest succession: Recruitment, mortality and species turnover

Biotropica

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 610-619

  Van Breugel, Michiel ^a,b   Bongers, Frans ^a   Martínez Ramos, Miguel ^b  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES EN ECOSISTEMAS Y SUSTENTABILIDAD   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Initial floristic composition; Mexico; Secondary forest dynamics; Tropical wet forest

Indexed keywords

FLORISTICS; FOREST DYNAMICS; MORTALITY; RAINFOREST; RECRUITMENT; SECONDARY SUCCESSION; SHADE TOLERANCE; SPATIAL VARIATION; SPECIES RICHNESS; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TROPICAL FOREST; TURNOVER;

MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 34548312360     PISSN: 00063606     EISSN: 17447429     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-7429.2007.00316.x     Document Type: Article

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